HOW W E W OR K

Choose your own adventure · Everyone works from the location they choose. We’re
spread out all over the world in more than 60 countries. We track about 70 percent of
our projects on P2-themed WordPress.com blogs, 25 percent in private chat rooms, and
the rest on Slack. Because of the geographic variance, we’re active 24/7. We care about
the work you produce, not just the hours you put in.

Coming on board · When you make it past the interview stage we’ll do a project
together on contract, typically lasting between two to six weeks depending on how much
time you can spend, to see how we work together. When you join full-time, you’ll do
customer support for WordPress.com for your first three weeks and spend a week in
support annually, for evermore, regardless of your position. We believe an early and
ongoing connection with the people who use our products is irreplaceable.

Meeting up · We get the whole company together once a year for seven days so that
Automatizing can create bonds that influence them all year long. So far we’ve done
Grand Meetups in San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; Oracle, Arizona;
Breckenridge, Colorado; Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec; Seaside, Florida; Budapest,
Hungary; San Diego, California; Santa Cruz, California; Park City, Utah; and Whistler,
Canada.

In addition to our all-company Grand Meetup, teams meet for five to seven days to
brainstorm team-level strategy and bond in locales ranging from Boulder to Buenos
Aires, Las Vegas to Lisbon, Montréal to Mexico City, and Vienna to Vietnam. If you join
our merry band, expect to travel three to four weeks per year.

Diversity and Inclusion · In 2014 we started to work, as a company, on facilitating

spaces for discussions about diversity at Automattic. And at the 2016 Grand Meetup
with all of our employees across 50 countries, we decided to share with the rest of the
world what we are doing about diversity and inclusion.

What do we look for? · Automatticians are curious, driven, compassionate,

tenacious, autonomous, friendly, independent, collaborative, communicative,
supportive, self-motivated, and amazing with .gifs. We want to work with people
interested in making the web and the world a better place. Think you’ve got what it
takes? Apply today.

Getting to know us · Would you like to know a bit more about what it’s like to be part
of Automattic? Check out this Business Insiderinterview with Matt on how our company
runs without offices or email. Meet a few colleagues (aka Automatticians) and hear
about their experiences in their own words. Eric did a Q&A on what it’s like to work at
Automattic. Still on the fence? Karen says you should really just apply.

OUR DEVEL OPM ENT PR OC ESS

Data-informed, user-driven · For every feature we launch, we gather metrics about
its usage, interaction, and growth in addition to listening to the masses of feedback we
get on our blog and through support channels. This helps us inform decisions about new
features and enhancements. It’s not uncommon to launch a feature and then iterate
immediately.

We have a one-button deploy system for WordPress.com, and we push code to the site
60–80 times a day. WordPress.com is synced with the WordPress.org trunk pretty
much every weekday. We’re strong believers in Open Source, and we try to open
source everything we can.

Is Automattic growing? Yes.

Total WordPress.com, Akismet, Crowdsignal, and Jetpack users.

Oct 2006
0
175M

B EN EFI TS

 Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees
to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy,
and to spend time with friends and family.
 Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can
use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
 We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books
or conferences that promote continued learning.
 Company-sponsored life insurance.
 Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been
with Automattic for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
 WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless
headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
 Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
 We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get
together one to three times per year in locations around the globe.
 Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance;
matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection;
travel insurance; and discount offers.

OPEN POSI TI ONS

Engineering
 Engineers at Automattic are responsible for the engines of Automattic: a variety of
codebases and processes devoted to making the web a better place. With their varied
backgrounds, our engineers collaborate with the other roles at Automattic to define,
implement, and improve the experience those engines provide and enable.


Head of Product
Apply


Software Engineer
Apply


JavaScript Engineer
Apply


Mobile Engineer (Android)
Apply


Systems Wrangler
Apply


Search Wrangler
Apply


Associate Product Manager for WooCommerce
Apply

Design
Designers at Automattic are responsible for shepherding the experiences of our
products. They listen, research, hypothesize, and deliver both product experiences as
well as the stories they share about them.


Product Designer, Mobile
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
Senior Product Designer, WordPress.com
 Apply


Senior Product Designer, WooCommerce
Apply


Senior UX Designer, Jetpack
Apply


Senior UX Designer, WordPress.com
Apply

Business Development
& Marketing
Members of our business development & marketing teams are opportunity seekers.
They’re always looking toward the horizon, searching for new ways to climb higher and
tell stories that resonate.


Business Development Wrangler (Legal)
Apply


Conversion Optimization Wrangler
Apply


Director of Payments
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
Organic Brand Advertising Manager
Apply


Product Marketing Manager
Apply


Growth Wrangler
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 Happiness
At the end of the day, we make products for people. And while every position at
Automattic involves helping people, no one does it better than our happiness engineers.


Happiness Engineer
Apply

People, Legal, & Finance

Having the freedom to focus can be a hard thing to come by. But there are those of us
that have a passion for providing that freedom to others. They're experienced,
knowledgeable, and can wrangle with the best of them.


Accounting Wrangler
Apply


Controller
Apply


Finance Wrangler
Apply


Human (Resources) Wrangler
Apply


Tax Wrangler
Apply

Enterprise (VIP)
The VIP team's offerings empower the largest companies in the world in their use of
WordPress. They’re always on the lookout for people to help grow, support, and build
the most advanced digital publishing platform in the world.

HOW W E W OR K
Choose your own adventure · Everyone works from the location they choose. We’re
spread out all over the world in more than 60 countries. We track about 70 percent of
our projects on P2-themed WordPress.com blogs, 25 percent in private chat rooms, and
the rest on Slack. Because of the geographic variance, we’re active 24/7. We care about
the work you produce, not just the hours you put in.

Coming on board · When you make it past the interview stage we’ll do a project
together on contract, typically lasting between two to six weeks depending on how much
time you can spend, to see how we work together. When you join full-time, you’ll do
customer support for WordPress.com for your first three weeks and spend a week in
support annually, for evermore, regardless of your position. We believe an early and
ongoing connection with the people who use our products is irreplaceable.

Meeting up · We get the whole company together once a year for seven days so that
Automatticians can create bonds that influence them all year long. So far we’ve done
Grand Meetups in San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; Oracle, Arizona;
Breckenridge, Colorado; Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec; Seaside, Florida; Budapest,
Hungary; San Diego, California; Santa Cruz, California; Park City, Utah; and Whistler,
Canada.

In addition to our all-company Grand Meetup, teams meet for five to seven days to
brainstorm team-level strategy and bond in locales ranging from Boulder to Buenos
Aires, Las Vegas to Lisbon, Montréal to Mexico City, and Vienna to Vietnam. If you join
our merry band, expect to travel three to four weeks per year.

Diversity and Inclusion · In 2014 we started to work, as a company, on facilitating

spaces for discussions about diversity at Automattic. And at the 2016 Grand Meetup
with all of our employees across 50 countries, we decided to share with the rest of the
world what we are doing about diversity and inclusion.

What do we look for? · Automatticians are curious, driven, compassionate,

tenacious, autonomous, friendly, independent, collaborative, communicative,
supportive, self-motivated, and amazing with .gifs. We want to work with people
interested in making the web and the world a better place. Think you’ve got what it
takes? Apply today.

Getting to know us · Would you like to know a bit more about what it’s like to be part
of Automattic? Check out this Business Insiderinterview with Matt on how our company
runs without offices or email. Meet a few colleagues (aka Automatticians) and hear
about their experiences in their own words. Eric did a Q&A on what it’s like to work at
Automattic. Still on the fence? Karen says you should really just apply.

OUR DEVEL OPM ENT PR OC ESS

Data-informed, user-driven · For every feature we launch, we gather metrics about
its usage, interaction, and growth in addition to listening to the masses of feedback we
get on our blog and through support channels. This helps us inform decisions about new
features and enhancements. It’s not uncommon to launch a feature and then iterate
immediately.

We have a one-button deploy system for WordPress.com, and we push code to the site
60–80 times a day. WordPress.com is synced with the WordPress.org trunk pretty
much every weekday. We’re strong believers in Open Source, and we try to open
source everything we can.

Is Automattic growing? Yes.

Total WordPress.com, Akismet, Crowdsignal, and Jetpack users.

Oct 2006
0
175M

B EN EFI TS

 Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees
to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy,
and to spend time with friends and family.
 Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can
use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
 We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books
or conferences that promote continued learning.
 Company-sponsored life insurance.
 Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been
with Automattic for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
 WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless
headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
 Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
 We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get
together one to three times per year in locations around the globe.
 Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance;
matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection;
travel insurance; and discount offers.

OPEN POSI TI ONS

Engineering
Engineers at Automattic are responsible for the engines of Automattic: a variety of
codebases and processes devoted to making the web a better place. With their varied
 backgrounds, our engineers collaborate with the other roles at Automattic to define,
implement, and improve the experience those engines provide and enable.


Head of Product
Apply


Software Engineer
Apply


JavaScript Engineer
Apply


Mobile Engineer (Android)
Apply


Systems Wrangler
Apply


Search Wrangler
Apply


Associate Product Manager for WooCommerce
Apply

Design
Designers at Automattic are responsible for shepherding the experiences of our
products. They listen, research, hypothesize, and deliver both product experiences as
well as the stories they share about them.


Product Designer, Mobile
Apply


Senior Product Designer, WordPress.com
Apply

Senior Product Designer, WooCommerce
Apply


Senior UX Designer, Jetpack
Apply


Senior UX Designer, WordPress.com
Apply

Business Development
& Marketing
Members of our business development & marketing teams are opportunity seekers.
They’re always looking toward the horizon, searching for new ways to climb higher and
tell stories that resonate.


Business Development Wrangler (Legal)
Apply


Conversion Optimization Wrangler
Apply


Director of Payments
Apply


Organic Brand Advertising Manager
Apply


Product Marketing Manager
Apply


Growth Wrangler
Apply

Happiness
 At the end of the day, we make products for people. And while every position at
Automattic involves helping people, no one does it better than our happiness engineers.


Happiness Engineer
Apply

People, Legal, & Finance

Having the freedom to focus can be a hard thing to come by. But there are those of us
that have a passion for providing that freedom to others. They're experienced,
knowledgeable, and can wrangle with the best of them.


Accounting Wrangler
Apply


Controller
Apply


Finance Wrangler
Apply


Human (Resources) Wrangler
Apply


Tax Wrangler
Apply

Enterprise (VIP)
The VIP team's offerings empower the largest companies in the world in their use of
WordPress. They’re always on the lookout for people to help grow, support, and build
the most advanced digital publishing platform in the world.
What Is WordPress? Explained for
Beginners
What is WordPress? At its core, WordPress is the simplest, most popular way
to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers over 32% of all
the websites on the Internet. Yes – more than one in four websites that you visit
are likely powered by WordPress.
On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content
management system licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or
modify the WordPress software for free. A content management system is
basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website –
like content – without needing to know anything about programming.

The end result is that WordPress makes building a website accessible to anyone
– even people who aren’t developers.

What Kinds Of Websites Can WordPress Make?

Many years ago, WordPress was primarily a tool to create a blog, rather than
more traditional websites. That hasn’t been true for a long time, though.
Nowadays, thanks to changes to the core code, as well as WordPress’ massive
ecosystem of plugins and themes, you can create any type of website with
WordPress.
For example, not only does WordPress power a huge number of business sites
and blogs, it’s also the most popular way to create an eCommerce store as well!
With WordPress, you can create:
 Business websites

 eCommerce stores
 Blogs
 Portfolios
 Resumes
 Forums
 Social networks
 Membership sites
 …pretty much anything else you can dream up.

What’s The Difference Between WordPress.org and

WordPress.com?

We’ve covered the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com in a

lot more detail, but here’s the short version:
 WordPress.org, often called self-hosted WordPress, is the free, open-source
WordPress software that you can install on your own web host to create a
website that’s 100% your own.
 WordPress.com is a for-profit, paid service that is powered by the
WordPress.org software. It’s simple to use, but you lose much of the flexibility
of the self-hosted WordPress.
Most of the time, when people say “WordPress”, they mean the self-hosted
WordPress available at WordPress.org. If you want to truly own your website,
self-hosted WordPress.org is almost always the best option.
All you need to do to get started with self-hosted WordPress is purchase web
hosting and a domain name.

Who Made WordPress And How Long Has It Been

Around?
WordPress was created as a standalone project all the way back in 2003,
originating as an offshoot of a previous project called b2/cafelog.
WordPress is open-source software, so nowadays it’s made by a huge community
of contributors. But if we were to trace WordPress’ origins back to its roots, its
original creation was a collaboration between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

Since then, Matt Mullenweg has largely become the face of WordPress. And he’s
also the founder of Automattic, which is the company behind the for-profit
WordPress.com service.

The history of WordPress between its founding as a blog platform back in 2003
and today is a long one…
But suffice it to say, WordPress has pushed forward and, thanks to its
contributors and huge community, developed into the most popular solution to
create any type of website.

Who Uses WordPress?

WordPress is used by individuals, big businesses, and everyone in between! On
an immediate note, we use WordPress! So the very site that you’re looking at
right now is powered by WordPress. Lots of other well-known entities use
WordPress as well. Here are some of our favorite examples:
Whitehouse.gov

The official Whitehouse.gov website is powered by WordPress:

Microsoft

Microsoft uses WordPress to power its official blog. It also uses WordPress to
power blogs for specific products like Windows and Skype:
The Rolling Stones

Even famous bands love WordPress! The Rolling Stones’ website is powered
entirely by WordPress:
 The Rolling Stones band website uses WordPress

Why Should You Use WordPress?

Ok, so over 32% of all the websites on the Internet are using WordPress,
including well-known entities like the White House and Microsoft.

But what about you? Why should you use WordPress?

Well, no matter what type of website you want to create, there are plenty of
reasons to use WordPress. Here are some of the biggest:

WordPress Is Free And Open Source

One of the biggest benefits of WordPress is that it’s free, open-source software.
While you will need to pay a little bit for hosting, you will never have to pay
just to use the WordPress software, which isn’t the case with alternatives like
Squarespace.
Beyond that, you can also find lots of open-source plugins and themes to change
how your website looks and functions. Speaking of….

WordPress Is Extensible

Even if you aren’t a developer, you can easily modify your website thanks to
WordPress’ huge ecosystem of themes and plugins:

 Themes – these primarily change how your website looks.

 Plugins – these primarily change how your website functions. Plugins can be
something small, like a contact form, or huge, like creating an eCommerce
store.
Currently, there are over 50,000 free WordPress plugins and 5,000 free
WordPress themes, as well as tons of premium options. That to say – you have
plenty of choices!

WordPress Is Easy To Install

Think you need to be a tech genius to create your own website? Think again! If
you can click a few buttons, you can install WordPress on your site.

Nowadays, most web hosts either:

 Offer to preinstall WordPress for you so that your site is ready to go right
away.
 Give you dedicated tools that make the install process very beginner-friendly.
WordPress Is Flexible

We’ve touched on this already, but WordPress is great because it lets you create
pretty much any type of website. Better yet, your website can also evolve with
you.

Want to add a forum to your existing WordPress site? No problem – just

install the bbPress plugin! Want to add a social network? No worries! Just use the
BuddyPress plugin.
You’re never locked into a specific set of functions – you can always adapt and
evolve.

It’s Easy To Find WordPress Help

Because WordPress is so popular, it’s easy to find help if you ever run into any
issues. There are heaps of…
 Blogs
 Tutorials
 Forums
 Facebook Groups
 Developers
…that you can turn to for free and paid help if needed.

Need More Convincing?

Still not convinced that WordPress is the best way to build a website? Read this
post for a deeper look at ten of the best reasons to use WordPress.

So What Is WordPress? It’s The Best Way To Build A

Website
WordPress is the most popular way to build a website for a reason. If you want to
build any type of website, from a blog to an eCommerce store, WordPress is a
great option.

Just remember that self-hosted WordPress.org and WordPress.com are not the
same thing. And, in most situations, self-hosted WordPress.org is what you want
to build a website. Self-hosted WordPress.org gives you more ownership as well
as access to all the perks and benefits of the WordPress community.

So how will you use WordPress? We can’t wait to find out!

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